A vicious criminal, known for his deadly use of a stiletto may have escaped from jail to revenge himself on those public servants that helped convict him.A vicious criminal, known for his deadly use of a stiletto may have escaped from jail to revenge himself on those public servants that helped convict him.A vicious criminal, known for his deadly use of a stiletto may have escaped from jail to revenge himself on those public servants that helped convict him.
- Dr. Julia Ogden
- (as Hélène Joy)
- Mrs. Gibson
- (as Diane Latchford)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaDuring his interview with the Chief Constable for the post of Inspector at Station House No. 3, it is learned that Murdoch was born in Nova Scotia, his father was a fisherman with whom he has lost touch, and his mother passed away when he was young. Murdoch worked in a lumber camp "up north" after coming from Montreal, and stayed two winters before meeting a lumberman there who had been a constable. Liking "the sounds of it", Murdoch applied and became a policeman ten years ago. He was a constable for five years before becoming acting detective at Station House No. 4, and then promoted to full detective three years ago; he has headed up 36 murder investigations in that time and achieved convictions in all but two. Murdoch was engaged to a Liza Milner who passed away over a year ago; he is a Roman Catholic who can only attend mass once or twice a week but he tries to go for confession as often as possible.
- GoofsInspector Murdoch walks into Dr. Ogden's office as she is listening to a Gilbert & Sullivan melody on her Edison Diamond Disc phonograph. The show at this time is part of the late 1890's; Edison did not create his flat-disc phonograph until 1914. Prior to that, Edison's musical output came from cylinders.
- Quotes
Chief Stockton: Murdoch. Hmph. Good copper. But it'd be a bloody cold day in Hell before a papist becomes an inspector in my police force.
Inspector Brackenreid: Sir, Detective Murdoch is quite exceptional. The fact that he's Catholic...
Chief Stockton: Thomas. You're an ambitious man. And I can see some day you being an alderman or maybe even a mayor. But Toronto is a Protestant city. You'd be wise to remember that.
The dead man is examined by Dr Ogden who is the coroner in the these early episodes but later series Dr Grace does the job in the morgue of examining the dead people. It is interesting in how they come up with deductions of when and how a person died without all the science we have now. They show too much of dead body wounds, not like other series with dead people in morgues.
Anyway Inspector Thomas Brackenreid also gets a similar trunk at home with a dead body. Both men were killed in a similar way and the 2 dead men and Inspector Thomas Brackenreid had something to do with a case years earlier and the man threatened to get them all.
Inspector Thomas Brackenreid has a man brought in that might have some answers. He beats up the man in the cell more than once. I could not watch the violence after that. He did this in front of other police and Brackenreid thought he was entitled to beat the guy up, scream at him and get answers about the murders.
I don't know how it ended.
- ctyankee1
- Jan 27, 2015
Details
- Runtime48 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 16 : 9